{"id":440570,"date":"2026-01-29T09:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T09:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/440570\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T09:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T09:47:09","slug":"zayas-says-rehydration-clause-halted-fundora-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/440570\/","title":{"rendered":"Zayas Says Rehydration Clause Halted Fundora Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=boxingnews24.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"display:flex; align-items:center; justify-content:center;&#010;            width:140px; height:40px; overflow:hidden;\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"208\" alt=\"Add EBoxing News 24as a preferred source on Google\" class=\"perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/google.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqLAgKIiZDQklTRmdnTWFoSUtFR0p2ZUdsdVoyNWxkM015TkM1amIyMG9BQVAB?ceid=US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"display:flex; align-items:center; justify-content:center;&#010;            width:140px; height:40px; overflow:hidden;\"><br \/>\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"468\" height=\"128\" alt=\"Follow Boxing News 24 on Google News\" style=\"height:100%; width:auto; display:block;\" class=\"perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/follow-google-news.png\"\/><br \/>\n  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe wanted a fight, then he didn\u2019t want to fight. Then he sent a rehydration clause,\u201d Zayas told the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeCoppinger\/status\/2016631658707832991\" rel=\"nofollow\">InsideRingShow<\/a>. \u201cI feel like it was a lot of excuses for a guy that is 6\u20195\u201d. He\u2019s the biggest guy in the division.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zayas said his team rejected the clause outright, noting that the fight was not for the IBF title, which carries a mandatory 10-pound rehydration rule, and was not being staged in a jurisdiction where such limits are standard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was all that was said. \u2018We\u2019ll accept the fight, but he\u2019ll have to do a rehydration clause,\u2019\u201d Zayas said. \u201cAnd we\u2019re like, \u2018We\u2019re not doing that. It doesn\u2019t make sense.\u2019 We weren\u2019t fighting for the IBF, and we weren\u2019t fighting in London. There was no need for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fundora\u2019s size has long been a talking point at 154 pounds, and the request stood out given that he is one of the largest fighters in the division.<\/p>\n<p>Once the clause entered the conversation, the talks stalled and never picked back up.<\/p>\n<p>Zayas didn\u2019t speculate on why the request was made, but his reaction made clear it wasn\u2019t something he was prepared to negotiate around. From his side, it was a condition that shut the door on the fight before discussions ever moved beyond the basics.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a familiar outcome in modern boxing. Fights often fall apart well before contracts are signed, not over purses or dates, but over details like weight limits and rehydration terms that quietly decide whether a matchup ever gets out of the planning stage.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Galm has covered the global boxing scene since 2014, specializing in heavyweight analysis, business trends, and fighter psychology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cHe wanted a fight, then he didn\u2019t want to fight. Then he sent a rehydration clause,\u201d Zayas told&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-440570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}